by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
While the legacy of Happy Jawbone Family Band lives on in the vibrant core of The Lentils and Luke Csehak’s music, he isn’t the only member keeping that spirit alive. Having made the move from Brattleboro to Los Angeles, former Happy Jawbone member Alex Edgeworth is making radiant art-pop with minimalist psych design and touches of avant-folk rock as Bed Bits. The project sounds both majestic and magnetic, whimsical but utterly engaging. There’s a real shimmer to her songs, sweet and charming, with attention to tonality and the detail in her warped and weaving recordings. Set to release a new self-titled album on September 27th via I’m Into Life Records (Open Head, The Lentils, Jolee Gordon), the album is great from start to finish, it’s shape in fluid motion, never settling into a singular pocket, but retaining the animated world of Edgeworth’s surrealist charms.
Having shared “Ceiling,” a song we praised for its “use of wonky progressions and texture [to] create a sense of anything-is-possible pop magic,” Bed Bits now offer the record’s next single, “Secret Life”. Keeping that spark alive as one single moves into the next, Alex Edgeworth retains the minimalism of her project with a simplistic time keeping beat and a rubbery guitar line that feels bent at all times, retraining our senses to follow in curved patterns. It’s another piece of subtle brilliance, a feeling that pop is meant to be skewed toward stranger directions, that groove can and should be altered into tightly wound exuberance.